The American Repertory Theater world premiere of All The Way, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan's new drama that stars Emmy Award-winning actor Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. Johnson, has sold-out its entire run prior to the start of previews in Cambridge, MA.

All The Way begins previews Sept. 12 and officially opens Sept. 19. Set to run through Oct. 12, there has been speculation that the production will have a future Broadway life. According to a previous report in the New York Times, producers such as Jeffrey Richards, who was the lead producer on Porgy and Bess and The Glass Menagerie — which both began life at A.R.T. prior to Broadway — are interested in transferring the drama to Broadway. read more

How did Emmy-award-winning actor Bryan Cranston spend some of his final days before the Sunday premiere of the last season of Breaking Bad? By flying to Austin to prepare for his next big role.

As the infamous Walter White, a science-teacher-turned-drug-kingpin, Cranston has awed and shocked audiences, making Al Pacino's Michael Corleone look like a cuddly family man. Now Cranston will tackle another complicated charater when he stars as President Lyndon Johnson next month in a play titled All the Way. The production, which was written by Austin native (and UT alum) Robert Schenkkan, focuses on LBJ's first year in office and will be staged at the American Repertory Theater, in Boston, on September 13.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Cranston spent time at the LBJ Presidential Library, researching the role by listening to telephone conversations from 1963 and 1964 and talking with members of the library and museum's staff (above, Cranston with Tina Houston, the library's deputy director, and Mark Updegrove, the library's director). Cranston also had dinner with members of LBJ's inner circle, including Harry Middleton and Larry Temple, and he drove out the the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall with Updegrove for a tour. read more